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Australia have not downgraded the threat of Muttiah Muralitharan despite delivering a significant obstacle to his hopes of breaking Shane Warne's Test wicket-taking record in Hobart

No underestimating Murali

Sri Lanka's tactics in the first Test were conservative and they were beaten easily despite the public mutterings of self-belief, writes Peter English

Failing to walk the talk

Mahela Jayawardene joined Trevor Bayliss in support of Marvan Atapattu as the veteran opener faced an uncertain cricket future following an outburst

Atapattu gets captain's support

12-Nov-2007•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Smith unhappy with quality of pitches in South Africa

Despite winning the first Test with plenty to spare, Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, has criticised the pitch at the Wanderers, and the standard of wickets in general in South Africa

Australia's evolving Test team has flowered in only one match but Ricky Ponting is already demanding it becomes a better outfit than the one that dismantled in January

Ponting demands even better at Hobart

Plays of the day from the fifth day of the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Brisbane

Another Stuart, another milestone

Jamie How will join the New Zealand Test squad in South Africa, New Zealand Cricket confirmed on Monday

How called into New Zealand Test squad

Karen Rolton is on target to be the first player in the history of the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL) to score 4000 runs

Rolton eyes 4000 domestic runs

New Zealand's domestic season kicks off on Monday when Northern Districts begin their State Championship defence without their leading run scorer from last summer

Northern Districts seek back-to-back titles

12-Nov-2007•Peter Burdon

Fletcher: Flintoff should ring me first

Duncan Fletcher says he is happy to speak to Andrew Flintoff, but will not be the first one to pick up the phone

The Pakistan team management has asked for another wicketkeeper to boost their squad for the remainder of the tour against India

Pakistan likely to call up additional wicketkeeper

Sidharth Monga present the Plays of the day from the third ODI in Kanpur

'Boom boom' goes bust

11-Nov-2007•Sidharth Monga in Kanpur

Board set to step in to sort Nairobi chaos

Cricket Kenya could step in and take over the Nairobi Provincial Cricket Association as yet another AGM fails to take place

A squad of 14 Kenya players are lending their support to Uganda to play two friendlies at the Lugogo Oval this weekend, to help them prepare for the World Cricket League Division Two in Namibia later this month

Kenya travel to Uganda for friendlies

Ray Price, the Zimbabwe left-arm spinner who was part of Heath Streak's rebel strikers in 2004, is to return to international cricket after being handed a call-up for Zimbabwe's series against the West Indies later this month

Ray Price returns to Zimbabwe squad

Plays of the day from the fourth day of the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Brisbane

Timely rain, and a game of millimetres

11-Nov-2007•Peter English at the Gabba

'We are not going to be easy pushovers' - Bayliss

Trevor Bayliss, the Sri Lanka coach, expressed confidence that his team could bat out a draw against Australia in the first Test at the Gabba

11-Nov-2007•Sa'adi Thawfeeq at the Gabba

MacGill enjoys the limelight

It took MacGill 18 months and 48 overs in this match to add the two wickets necessary to push him to a double-century of dismissals, but despite the delay only Clarrie Grimmett, Dennis Lillee and Waqar Younis have beaten him to the landmark

11-Nov-2007•Peter English at the Gabba

I'm not England's No. 1 spinner - Panesar

England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar has said he doesn't regard himself as his side's primary spinner, ahead of the three-Test series against Sri Lanka